Sat 09 September 2023: Deputy President Paul Mashatile will on Saturday, 9 September 2023, attend and deliver the keynote address at the Forty under 40 SA Awards, taking place at Houghton Hotel, Gauteng. The Forty under 40 SA Awards celebrate and honour the nation’s most influential, accomplished, and inspiring South Africans under 40, across various […]
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Fri 08 September 2023: Armed groups assaulted a passenger ship and a military installation, killing at least 49 civilians and 15 troops. In addition, the attack claimed the lives of about 50 attackers, according to Mali’s armed forces, “On September 7, 2023, at around 11am [11:00 GMT], armed terrorist groups with fatal designs attacked a […]
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Fri 08 September 2023: The Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Zizi Kodwa has welcomed the agreement between the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and MultiChoice regarding the broadcast rights for the 2023 Rugby World Cup. MultiChoice announced that it had reached an agreement with the SABC to sub-license broadcast rights to the public […]
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Thu 07 September 2023: Gabon’s deposed president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, has been released from house arrest and is free to leave the country for medical treatment, the military which removed him from power last month has said. Bongo was toppled from power on August 30, shortly after being declared the winner of much-criticised elections that […]
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Thu 07 September 2023: J&J, Pfizer charged South Africa between 15 and 33 percent more for COVID vaccine doses, contracts reveal. Johannesburg, South Africa – Big pharmaceutical companies “bullied” South Africa into signing unfair agreements that forced the country to overpay for COVID-19 vaccines compared with Western nations, according to a nonprofit that lobbied for the […]
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Thu 07 September 2023: Raymond Ackerman, a pioneer in South African retail, passed away on Thursday at the age of 92, Pick n Pay confirmed. Ackerman is survived by his wife Wendy, children Gareth, Kathy, Suzanne and Jonathan, his 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. “With profound sadness we announce that Pick n Pay founder Raymond […]
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Wed 06 September 2023: Stats SA has announced that South African real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanded by 0.6% in the second quarter of 2023, which measured is from April to June. Six industries on the supply side of the economy grew in the second quarter, with manufacturing and finance driving much of the upward […]
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Wed 06 September 2023: The number of displaced civilians within Sudan has almost doubled since the outbreak of clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in April, according to the UN migration agency on Tuesday. “Nearly 7.1 million people are internally displaced within Sudan,” the International Organization for Migration (IOM) […]
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Wed 06 September 2023: People of African descent are still facing “immense challenges” in participating meaningfully in public affairs in many countries due to “systemic racism, marginalization and exclusion often rooted in the legacies of enslavement and colonialism,” said a report released Tuesday by the UN Human Rights Office. The report states that “systemic racism […]
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Tue 05 September 2023: Heavy fighting with militants in northern Burkina Faso resulted in the deaths of 37 volunteer fighters and 17 soldiers, according to the army. In the west African nation that has been battling hardline Islamists for years, it is the biggest strike in months. Since 2015, Burkina Faso has been engaged in […]
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